Support of femtocells is an integral part of the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A)
system and a key enabler for its wide adoption in a broad scale. Femtocells are short-range …

Femtocells are assuming an increasingly important role in the coverage and capacity of
cellular networks. In contrast to existing cellular systems, femtocells are end-user deployed …

Most books on network planning and optimization provide limited coverage of either GSM or
WCDMA techniques. Few scrape the surface of HSPA, and even fewer deal with TD …

To successfully deploy femtocells underlaying the macrocell as a heterogeneous network,
which has been proven to greatly improve indoor coverage and system capacity, the cross …

Within the foreseeable future, the growing number of mobile devices, and their diversity, will
challenge the current network architecture. Furthermore, users will expect greater data rates …

Femtocell technology has been drawing considerable attention as a cost-effective means of
extending cellular coverage and enhancing capacity as well as realizing its potential, when …

Deployment of low-power low-cost small access points such as femtocell access points
(FAPs) constitute an attractive solution for improving the existing macrocell access …

Femtocell networks, consisting of a conventional macro cellular deployment and overlaying
femtocells, forming a hierarchical cell structure, constitute an attractive solution to improving …

Deployment of low-power nodes such as picocells, femtocells, and relay nodes within
macrocell coverage is seen as a cost-effective way to increase system capacity and to equip …

In this paper we consider a heterogeneous LTE network where femto cells are randomly
deployed in a macro network. Femto cells are modeled as closed cells, namely only group …